53

‘God a marsey,’ seyde þe barker þo,

‘thow semyst a ffelow god;

Yeffe Y met the yn Dantre,

þow schalt dreynke, be [þe] rode.’

54

‘Be mey ffeyt,’ seyde owre kyng,

‘or els were Y to blame,

Yeffe Y met the yn Lecheffelde,

þow schalt hafe the same.’